Northern Freckled Milkvetch

Cystium albifolium (M. E. Jones) Rydberg, sp. nov
Astragalus lentiginosus albifolius M. E. Jones, Rev. Astrag. 124. 1923.
A perennial, with a woody root; stems several, erect, branched, terete, strigose, 3-4 dm. high; leaves ascending, 4-6 cm. long; stipules deltoid or lanceolate, 2-3 mm. long, strigulose; leaflets 13-25, oblong, obtuse, strigose on both sides, 8-15 mm. long; peduncles 2-4 cm. long; racemes dense, 2-4 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, 2 mm. long; pedicels less than 1 mm. long; calyx strigose, the tube 4 mm. long, the teeth subulate, 1.5 mm. long; corolla white; banner obovate, fully 1 cm. long; wings somewhat shorter, the blade oblong, with a large auricle; pod ovoid, papery, short-acuminate, 12-15 mm. long and almost as wide, sparingly strigulose; seeds brown, obliquely reniform, 2.5 mm. long, 2 mm. thick.
Type locality: Lone Pine, Owens Valley, California. Distribution: Southern California.